Blue Pencil Sessions

This is your opportunity to sit down with an industry professional
for fifteen minutes, to share you work and receive immediate feedback. Bring three pages of
your best work (double-spaced for authors, artwork for artists ). The pro will read (or view)
your work and give their input. You may also want to bring your
questions about troubles you're having with the piece.

NOTE: Please email us with your first choice and second choice of Blue Pencil Pro Author.
We will do our best to fit everyone with their requested pro, but if it becomes necessary, we may need to use your second choice. Members are allowed to book two blue pencil sessions. If this interests you, please then indicate your first three choices.

Red Pencil Sessions

This is your opportunity to send in your work ahead of time, to then sit
down with an industry professional
for ten minutes, to receive feedback. Once you sign up, you'll then send in your
pages by the announced deadline. You may also want to bring your
questions about troubles you're having with the piece.

NOTE: Please email us with your first choice and second choice of Red Pencil Pro Author.
We will do our best to fit everyone with their requested pro, but if it becomes necessary, we may need to use your second choice. Members are allowed to book two blue pencil sessions. If this interests you, please then indicate your first three choices.

Email ashtal@gmail.com NOTE: Please email us with your first choice and second choice of Pitch Session Publisher.
We will do our best to fit everyone with their requested pro, but if it becomes necessary, we may need to use your second choice. Members are allowed to book two pitch sessions. If this interests you, please then indicate your first three choices.

We have a blurb from Constellate Publishing about who they are and what they are looking for:
"Constellate Publishing is a new publishing house launching in late-2018. We publish Canadian speculative fiction in print and digital formats. We love cross-genre work and anything that might be considered weird, and we are currently looking for short fiction (4,000-10,000 words, open theme / genre) for a digital project, short fiction (3,500-7,500 words) for themed anthology projects, and novels (stand alone or series)."

Kaffeeklatches

What's a Kaffeeklatch? It's a chance to sit down with one of our Guests of Honour
to have coffee (or tea, or water!) and chat in a more intimate setting. Numbers will be limited to keep the group
small. Bring your questions.

Friday Night Group Reading

Come out and here some fantastic authors read from their work! The
reading will run from 7:00pm-10:00pm but you are welcome to come and go
as you please, come out and catch your favourite authors and meet some new ones!
This is going to be a great event!
Friday Night Reading Schedule:

New West Writers Group -- How do writers improve their work?

3 one hour sessions in the Boardroom

The answer to the question is many seek constructive feedback from their
peers. New West Writers offers an opportunity to hear members talk on the
value of joining a writing community, and to observe a critique session.

In addition to the Blue and Red Pencils, this is a chance to get feedback on your
writing.

Bring along your own work or simply listen. But most of all, you will get a chance
to discover if a writing group will work for you?

New West Writers - Who we are

New West Writers are a group of emerging and established writers, poets, and
authors.

We meet on the third Saturday of most months and critique each other's work.
Members of our group are experienced in providing constructive feedback.

We would like to invite all aspiring authors to attend our critiquing session
and allow us to provide feedback on your work. All types of writing are
welcome - poetry, essays, novels, non-fiction, and children's stories. Please
limit your piece to 800 words.

New West Writers - Critiquing Session

The critiquing session will work in this way. The whole session will last for
three hours, but will be split into three separate 1-hour sessions.

New West Writers will provide a maximum of three critiques per 1-hour
session.
This means that only 3 guests will be able to book for a critique per
session.
No guest may book for more than one of the 1-hour sessions.

At each of the 1-hour sessions, three New West Writers will provide verbal
feedback. The other guests would also be invited to provide a verbal
critique.
Other New West Writers at each session may also provide written feedback.

Guests should bring between 5 - 7 copies of the piece they want critiquing.

Space is limited, so there is a sign up for this session.
You must have a 2018 Membership to sign up
Sign up is now available! IF spots are still open at the festival,
you can sign up then.

New West Writers hold a critique session on the third Saturday of the month
from 10:30 am in the Gallery at Queens Park. All writing is welcome -
poetry, novels, short stories, creative non-fiction and children's stories.